Good Things Come in Twos

Raising twin toddlers is interesting, extremely fun, and exhausting...all in the same day. Each day I get to see them interact more and more with each other and watch their friendship develop.

Just for the record, we do dress better than this. But we had Kindermusik on this night, so we waited until moments before class to actually put on our nice, clean jeans. Until then, comfy pj pants did the job.

They definitely believe they are a matching set that should always be together. If one sleeps longer than the other, the awake Thing will wander around every so often looking for his missing Thing. And when they hear the other Thing wake up on the monitor, I better be ready to rush up to rescue him, because the awake Thing has a fit until I do! The best is when I walk down the stairs with the missing Thing and they both simply start giggling to see each other.

As different as they can be, personality wise, they are simply two peas in a pod who do their best playing with their best friend close by.

My loves.

Glub, Glub, Glub

Bub has had fish (only 1 is still with us) for a year or so now, so one of the boys' favorite "animal" sounds is a fish. Whenever they see a fish, we hear "glub, glub."

When we started having fish fillets as one of our lunch options, they would respond in favor by saying "glub, glub."

And now one of our favorite snacks is Goldfish, which is also met with a rousing, "glub, glub, mo (more)."

Anybody know the answer?? Anybody??

The top item on my wish list right now is a Cricut Cutter. I am definitely planning to get one sometime this summer, but here's my question. Which one?

I'd love to get the Cricut Cake Cutter because I know I'd use it all the time for fun cake projects! I love making our boys' birthday cakes every year, and with the cutter, I could do so much more. But then again, I'd also love the Cricut Paper Cutter and know I'd use it all the time also.

Now, the cake cutter says it works with the regular cartridges. Does that mean the regular cartridges to cut fondant, or the regular cartridges and you can cut paper?? In other words, can you cut paper and icing with the cake cutter? It seems too good to be true, but would love it if I can do both with one machine.

Any sage advice from Cricut experts out there??

Booktime

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are just as crazy about books as their big brother was. We have dozens of books in every room in our house and the van, because a good book always seems to hit the spot. I love reading to all of my boys, but there's nothing better than doing a little independent reading.

Or even working together to read a good book.

Who knew the footstools in the bathroom made such a great reading nook?

There must be some big words in this book judging by the concentration on Thing 1's face.

Zoo Trip

As previously mentioned, we headed to the zoo yesterday to enjoy the gorgeous weather and our day with S home on vacation. As usual these days, we didn't manage to get a photo of all five of us, but managed to snap a couple of me with the boys.

Some day we'll be able to consistently get a picture of our entire family again.

Now let me say, I am in no way an advocate of my kid walking around with a pacifier hanging out of his mouth. Our pacifiers are for sleeping time only; however, it was nap time at this point, so they got lovies and pacifiers to ensure there were no melt downs before we exited the premises. But look at Thing 2's pacifier. He rarely sucks on it when he does have it; he just chews on it like it's a stogie hanging out the side of his mouth. I seriously think I birthed two 80 year old men sometimes.

Now, I know what you're thinking..."that's a pretty good picture for three kids, two of them being toddlers." Um, yep, here's what most of our pictures look like.

Notice the look of Bub's face. "Here we go again."

St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day isn't a huge holiday in our house, but we usually have a little leprachaun fun around the house to help us celebrate. Most years, this has included turning most of our food and beverage choices of the day green. But this year, the weather was forecasted to be absolutely gorgeous, so our plan was to head to the zoo with Daddy for the day. I didn't feel like trying to prep a picnic for five with green food so we needed some other options.

Bub is on Spring Break this week, so we had a little fun on Wednesday with a rainbow chart using Skittles. He's truly my child, as he'll do anything for a bag of Skittles! I got the idea from Little Wonders' Days and knew Bub would love it.

Hard at work sorting his Skittles colors

As promised, we had absolutely beautiful weather yesterday, and spent several hours at the zoo enjoying the weather, the animals, and being together outside!! To round out our rainbow filled day, we had fruit pizza for dessert.

The boys loved eating it, but their favorite part of any meal is watching it bake. Lucky for them, Mommy's always baking so there's always a show in the kitchen.

Thrifty Find

I've been wanting a mirror for our entryway for some time now, but just wasn't willing to pay $20 and up for a simple black mirror. So, I decided I'd just wait until I could find one at Goodwill to fix up just like I wanted. The boys and I have started stopping in at our Goodwill store every Tuesday morning to see if there's anything good we need.

I found a mirror a couple of weeks ago that was the perfect size and shape, it just needed a good coat of paint to cover up the ugly!

(see what I mean about the ugly??)

After a couple of coats of shiny black spray paint, I have a fabulous mirror that is perfect in our entryway. And it only cost me $7.99 (would have been cheaper at Goodwill, but we were shopping at Savers that day and their prices are just a bit higher).

(it really does hang vertically in our house, but I can't figure out why it's rotated)